mojoe

Hey, I've been in your position before, so I thought I'd try and give some insight about why I don't think this is getting traction. This was my user experience:

1. I went to the site, clicked 'proceed', then clicked 'live demo' 2. I saw a login screen, and right before I closed the page I saw some tiny credentials pop up on the bottom of the screen so I put them into the login form 3. I got to a screen where the CSS was all messed up, couldn't see most of the left nav bar, nothing to do, so I bounced. I was using Chrome 91 on Ubuntu.

I can't really comment on the usefulness of UML->web apps, since nobody I know writes UML. I'd just think about how your customers interact with your site a lot more.

Good luck!

Amazon must be putting so much money into robot R&D

We're wired to come up with simple heuristics like "smaller than 5 microns bad" and "larger than 5 microns fine". It's much harder to hold a true model of the world in our heads: a list of every different disease, how big particles containing it need to be to lead to respiratory infection, and how each type of virus and bacteria behave under different atmospheric conditions (humidity, temperature, pressure). While we can try and not rely on over-simplified heuristics, to really ensure that our heuristics aren't killing people we'll need to eventually offload a lot of this type of fine-grained simulation/prediction to software.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

thanks!

Thanks, I just ordered the first one, I appreciate the recommendation!

Thanks! We've got about half of these, I'll check out the other half.

We've got the Napping House, I'll check out the others, thanks!

Perfect, ordered, thanks!

Thanks! We have a big stack of Richard Scarry books, they're excellent.

Thanks! We have all of these except for the Inigo book, I'll check it out

T-Mobile has such bad practices -- about 6 years ago they gave my phone number out as a temporary number to someone else. I don't know how their infrastructure is set up, but both me and this other guy had the same number for a time. Incoming calls would be routed to the phone that called out last. At one point I was able to talk to the other guy by using my wife's phone to call my own number. T-Mobile claimed that what was happening was impossible, so I filed a complaint with the FCC and switched my phone service. By the time T-Mobile responded to the complaint (by saying nothing was wrong), I had long since switched providers, so I didn't pursue the matter further. Huge annoyance though.

There's a difference between being passionate about a skillset and passionate about a field. For instance, I can be passionate about renewable energy and still be a generalist in terms of my day-to-day work.

I feel you. I have a newborn and a two-year-old. It can be frustrating not being able to get into the flow, but I'm just trying to enjoy this time with the kids knowing that they're growing fast.

To be fair to them, they did offer me time. I do think they should have had an official policy, though.

Looks like the only opening listed on the FiniteState site is a QA position.

These days many prolific writers are probably publishing most of their work as online articles. It would be interesting to see a list that includes a total word count (although such a thing would be very difficult to compile).

I love World of Carbon (and it's companion volume, World of Nitrogen)! I've been trying to get the rights to republish both with modern annotations, but I'm apparently not a big enough publisher for William Morris Endeavor (literary management for Asimov's estate) to respond to. It's sad, since both books are out of print.

This smells like projecting values on others. Just because the author's Ithaca includes building an independent company doesn't mean that others are lotus eaters. If the author's co-workers had explicit goals of contributing to a large company, having a happy, stable family and good work-life balance, etc. then perhaps they already found their Ithaca.

This is my favorite math proof. I'd love to hear yours!

The article really downplays the extent of Levandowski's greed and willfully criminal behavior. While Google paid him $120 million he was actively working on Otto, which he sold to Uber for almost $700 million (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-levandowski-120-milli...). This doesn't seem like a case that's going to set some dangerous new precident.

I'm interested in modeling biochemical systems -- a lot of work falls under this umbrella. Thanks for the offer of chatting about this stuff, if you're still interested my email address is joe@compellingpython.com

thanks, great resources!

You can very easily deploy WSGI-compatible apps to AWS Lambda in seconds with the open-source library Zappa (https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa). Zero server maintenance and zero cost if nobody is using your apps (I put up personal apps all the time with this paradigm, it's great). I love it so much I wrote a book about it: https://compellingpython.com/

I spent the last 6 months working on this project for about an hour every evening. I use this serverless Python web app framework on all of my sites (including compellingpython.com itself), and I got several great technical reviewers to look over the material, so even though there are a lot of potential improvements I think it's a solid guide.

This is the first time I've tried to sell something like this online, though, so I'd be grateful for any constructive criticism on sales flow, etc. Thanks!

If you feel like sharing how you went about it, I'd be happy to publish your stories. Feel free to send a draft to joe@compellingpython.com, or let me know if you'd like some help getting started!

My plan right now is to publish about one story a week -- I'll also tell some of my own Python stories, mostly about using Python with cloud services and data analysis.

Are you saying the divergence couldn't have been that great if there was some level of interbreeding, or are you saying something else? "Derive" seems like a strong word in this case, considering the low single-digit percentage of denisovan DNA in any modern humans.

I'm not a fan of Udacity, mainly because I paid them $800 for a single course (the first in the self-driving car series) and then they blocked all my access to the course content because I didn't finish the projects in the allotted time. I was hoping to finish later because my work schedule changed, but they were completely inflexible. I should have read the fine print. The course content was OK, but I don't think they have great policies.

Thanks, I got a contact from them a while back. I know who administers the rights over at William Morris Endeavor, they just won't respond to me, so I'm trying other avenues to get their attention.